Re: system instablity

1998-12-13 Thread Ed Cogburn
George Bonser wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > I realize this is a rare problem, because few if anyone is seeing it, > > but its clear to me that its not a hardware problem, even though I > > understand that you don't believe me, and you are not the only one to > > te

Re: ftping StarOffice in small doses

1998-12-13 Thread Doug Dine
The only one I know of is FTP Explorer for Windows 9.x It's freeware and available at http://www.completelyfreesoftware.com At 12/11/98 10:13:00 PM, you wrote: > >Hi all, > I want to download StarOffice but with it being 70Mb I don't fancy > having an >open line for seven hours plus

Re: fetchmail + procmail setup

1998-12-13 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Could you please clarify my understanding?? I read the document about procmail. I don't understand why we need to use .forward.(what does it do wanyway??) In the man page, it says if we use fetchmail -v --mda formail -s procmail Then all the mails arrived will be go

Re: system instablity

1998-12-13 Thread Ed Cogburn
Dan hursh wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > Thanks Dan, I thought it was just me. I reported transient errors > > with > > apt/dpkg. Do the errors start with 'General Protection: 00' or > > 'General failure: ' or something like that? > > I don't know

Re: calculating bandwidth requirements

1998-12-13 Thread Ben Bucksch
>> Having said that, is there some rough guide to calculating the mimimum >> bandwidth required to support a given number of users with 56K connections >> to my machine ? Look at your own ip-stats when you're surfing. >feed. That is a T1 in and of itself. Just grab the groups that are >requeste

Re: system instablity

1998-12-13 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ed C. writes: > > I first got the same kind of 'General failure: 0' message from > > apt/dpkg then I got the kernel message that began with 'Aiyee' or > > something like that. It was the first time I've seen a hard kernel crash > > outside of the X win system. >

Re: X fonts problems. nothing available for helvetica

1998-12-13 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
"Alan Bailward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi there. Appologies for re-hashing this. > > Just upgraded my system for the first time in a couple of months > with slink. Everything mostly went right, but I have had some > problems with X. When starting it, my windowmanager (windowmaker) > com

RE: Problems with Maelstrom

1998-12-13 Thread Darren Benham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- No, quite frankly, Maelstrom doesn't seem to be working for me, either. The only way I can get it to work is to d/l pristine source and compile it myself On 13-Dec-98 Peter Kovacs wrote: > I used to play this game for hours and hours on my old Mac LC III. > An

Re: WindowMaker 0.20.3 on hamm

1998-12-13 Thread Tun Yang
>| thanks for the input... I checked and I had those packages installed >| already... and I couldn't find any packages with the same name but without >| the 'g' at the end...It still gives the same error... >| ld: cannot open -lX11: No such file or directory > >If I remember your problem correctly

RE: creating audio-cds from .wav-files

1998-12-13 Thread Jon Burchmore
> But, ... > my target is to bring the .wav - files back to > audio-format to create audio-cd's which I can > run in my "stereo-box-cd-player" > Is there any way to do this, maybe a converting- > program ? There is no need to convert the files. cdrecord can write .wav files directly to CD-R (I've

Re: WINE

1998-12-13 Thread Peter Bartosch
Hi! }-> Hey all, }-> }-> When I try to run whine, it says: }-> "Could not stat /dos, ignoring drive C: }-> Invalid path 'c:\windows' for windows directory" }-> }-> Uh, help. you have to edit your /etc/wine.conf in it there are the dos-drives defined /dos is predefined as c: so, if you don“t h

Lowmemory Installation Help

1998-12-13 Thread Sean
I am currently attempting to install debian 2.0 (hamm) on a 486-25MHz computer with 4MB of memory using floppy disks. When I go through the installation program, everything seems to work okay, after about five trials. I always seem to get stuck at the point where I have a choice of making

Re: creating audio-cds from .wav-files

1998-12-13 Thread Nuno Carvalho
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Peter Berlau wrote: > Is there any way to do this, maybe a converting- > program ? Check out wav2cdr package on: http://cgi.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/unstable/sound/wav2cdr.html Best regards, Nuno Carvalho ?? Nuno Emanuel

Re: [fsck]: file system errors ... (still have ...)

1998-12-13 Thread Nuno Carvalho
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Nuno Carvalho wrote: > On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, wb2oyc wrote: > > > > Is anything going wrong !? It happens, sometimes, even when not having > > >failure power or mounted disks. > > > Are you actually shutting down with "shutdown -h now" and waiting for > > the System Halted mes

Unidentified subject!

1998-12-13 Thread Phillip Neumann
On vie, 11 dic 1998 19:13:33 tracheotomy bob wrote: > Hi all, > I want to download StarOffice but with it being 70Mb I don't fancy > having an > open line for seven hours plus. Does anyone know of an ftp program that can > download > in chunks at a time and doesn't mind frequent interrupt

Re: UDMA Disk Errors Fixed

1998-12-13 Thread Rick Macdonald
George - with all those things disabled, does the UDMA disk perform faster than if you just don't use the UDMA in the first place? I'm assuming that you can choose a UDMA driver or the regular IDE driver? George Bonser wrote: > > Pretty tired at this point but I got it fixed. It is a combination

Re: system instablity

1998-12-13 Thread Dan hursh
On 13 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > An X server can crash the kernel because it has privileged i/o and memory > access. Programs such as apt and dpkg cannot. What you got can only be > either a kernel bug or a hardware problem. Since apt and dpkg do nothing > at all out of the ordinary

Re: resolve.conf specification

1998-12-13 Thread john
Horacio writes: > So, that means there is a "non simple" way of using 2+ different ISPs... if > so, how? and, could you explain it to me step by step, please? This a cheap hack, off the top of my head and untested. Use pppconfig to set up named providers ispA, ispB, and ispC, in addition to 'pr

Re: g++2.8, egcs, gcc 2.7.2, etc. - *very confused*

1998-12-13 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, > >I left the source as it was, but added some softlinks, like > >/usr/include/X11/GL -> /usr/include/GL > > Me to, but I had to edit out some refs. to a /GL/GLw/ directory included > file - the header file was actually under /GL, and Glw doesn't exist on > my system. I used softlinks thr

Debian CDs.

1998-12-13 Thread Christian Lavoie
What's is the best place (on-line) to get the Slink CDs when it's out?

creating audio-cds from .wav-files

1998-12-13 Thread Peter Berlau
Hi, yesterday I buyed a SB - AWE 64 value Soundblaster-Card and sucked some sound-programs from debian/slink I can: plug in my audio-stereo to the line-in SB than can mix the input-pegel with `xmixer' record the audio-data with `sound-recorder' and play the generated `XXX.wav' with `splay' that wor

Re: new LILO won't install a new boot sector ...

1998-12-13 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Seth M. Landsman wrote: > So I have a laptop that has been running slink since August. I > just downloaded the new lilo and tried to install a new kernel via lilo. > I get the error message : > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo lilo > First boot sector has a pre-21 LILO signatu

Re: sorting russian text; perl

1998-12-13 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 11:13:09PM +0400, Eugene Sevinian wrote: > > Hi all, > about one month ago there were posting about locale's usage under > perl. I tried to use it for sorting russian, but it did not work for me. > Is there any additional tricks beside setting LANG=ru_RU; export LANG? I >

Fwd: Problems compiling KDE v1.0

1998-12-13 Thread MallarJ
For those of you that are or will be attempting to compile v1.0 of KDE, there is a problem with the kdeadmin package source. Evidently, it's a known issue, but I thought I'd forward the reply anyway... PS - I've finally managed to get all of the KDE stuff compiled (it took a good portion of two

Re: resolve.conf specification

1998-12-13 Thread homega
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: > > At present there is no simple way to use a different set of nameservers > with each ISP. So, that means there is a "non simple" way of using 2+ different ISPs... if so, how? and, could you explain it to me step by step, please? BTW, not only it would have to be abl

russian text; perl NEED HELP!!!

1998-12-13 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi, as I run into this problem and do not how to cope with it, I would like to ask somebody who is workig with russian just to test whether perl supports sorting of russian texts. Torsten sent me a simple script which was working for him. Any help will be greatly appreciated, TIA, Eugen

new LILO won't install a new boot sector ...

1998-12-13 Thread Seth M. Landsman
So I have a laptop that has been running slink since August. I just downloaded the new lilo and tried to install a new kernel via lilo. I get the error message : [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo lilo First boot sector has a pre-21 LILO signature lilo -q does not show the new kernel has bee

Re: vgetty info.

1998-12-13 Thread Joerg Friedrich
On Fri, 11 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm looking for information about vgetty. Does anyone know if there is > a homepage for it? Also what modems does it support? Anyone have real > world experiance with it? Main Site http://alpha.greenie.net/vgetty/ vgetty mirror sites: http://ww

Re: system instablity

1998-12-13 Thread john
Dan writes: > Could you tell if the General Protection/failure > messages were from dselect, or the kernel. Such messages can come only from the kernel. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Toshiba Satellite crashes with fn key

1998-12-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 Dec 1998q, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Has anyone on this list tried pressing the fn key on a Toshiba Satellite while > in Linux? In my case it locks up the machine irretrievably :)) . > > I wish there were some way of disabling it. > > Anthony > Very sorry to follow up to my own post but

Re: apache: "httpd: cannot determine local host name."

1998-12-13 Thread Tim Moore
> "Graham" == Graham Ashton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Graham> if you've got a dynamic ip address, or that still doesn't Graham> work, look through your httpd.conf file until you find the Graham> line that looks like; Graham> #ServerName myhost.mydomain.com Graham> repla

Re: fetchmail + procmail setup

1998-12-13 Thread Graham Ashton
On 14 Dec, Richard L. Alhama wrote: > But when I choosed smail as my MTA, my used to be working ~/.procmailrc > could not sort mail anymore. oh. well I have a very similar setup to dave. my .forward and .procmailrc files seem to be virtually identical (technically). my fetchmail is done slightl

Re: mailtools filter

1998-12-13 Thread john
Richard L. Alhama writes: > does anyone here have a working mailtools filter for debian-user? I'm fairly happy with mailagent. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: system instablity

1998-12-13 Thread john
Ed C. writes: > I first got the same kind of 'General failure: 0' message from > apt/dpkg then I got the kernel message that began with 'Aiyee' or > something like that. It was the first time I've seen a hard kernel crash > outside of the X win system. An X server can crash the kernel because

RE: Dead middle button in Agiler 3 button mouse

1998-12-13 Thread Jon Burchmore
> Just got a basic Agiler serial mouse (AGM1904). It works fine but > the middle button does not respond. > The mouse box says: resolution 400DPI, Mode: Microsoft / Mouse system. > You need to hold down a button at power-up to go into Mouse System (I > guess > they mean Mouse Systems?) which I did

how to set up delete and Num_Lock under X Window ?

1998-12-13 Thread Jan Krupa
I. Under X Window backspace works in the standard way but delete works exactly the same way as backspace. How can I achieve the two keys named delete working under X Window in all applications (e.g. xterm, emacs, mathematica, netscape, vim,..) in the standard way (erasing the sign after cursor n

Re: dwww: how to include /usr/local/doc

1998-12-13 Thread Marc Haber
On 12 Dec 1998 21:56:43 +0100, you wrote: >>> "MH" == Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >MH> I have compiled some programs myself, such as a testing release of >MH> exim. These programs went into /usr/local, so I have a >MH> /usr/local/doc with quite some documentation that I'd like to >MH> in

Re: ftping StarOffice in small doses

1998-12-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 11 Dec 1998 22:13:33 + (GMT), you wrote: > I want to download StarOffice but with it being 70Mb I don't fancy > having an >open line for seven hours plus. Does anyone know of an ftp program that can >download >in chunks at a time and doesn't mind frequent interruptions. I think

Re: Network cards.

1998-12-13 Thread Marc Haber
On 12 Dec 1998 13:38:56 -0800, you wrote: >I believe Donald Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said that he >believes that every 10/100 Mbps ethernet card on the market is now >supported for Linux. :-) He believes. Though he knows that later Adaptec ANA6911A cards don't work. >You have to be pretty unlu

Re: system instablity

1998-12-13 Thread Dan hursh
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Thanks Dan, I thought it was just me. I reported transient errors with > apt/dpkg. Do the errors start with 'General Protection: 00' or > 'General failure: ' or something like that? I don't know if I'm any help. I've never gotten any

Re: less shows fortune

1998-12-13 Thread Carl Johnson
Stef Hoesli Wiederwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > There probably a mismatched quote somewhere, or something similar. > > > > Post /etc/profile and /etc/csh.cshrc here, the error should be obvious > > to spot > > I don't think so: > > # /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for bash(1). >

Problems with Maelstrom

1998-12-13 Thread Peter Kovacs
I used to play this game for hours and hours on my old Mac LC III. Anyway, I just discovered that it existed last night, and I'm having a few problems starting it. In X, I start it with the -nofade option, and the load status bar fills up and the game apparently crashes. The window is still there

Re: Star Office 3

1998-12-13 Thread Ramin Motakef
If I remember correct, SO3 needs Motif libs for the setup programm. Version 4 and 5 don't. HTH Ramin "Jeff Browning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey all, > > I just got Star Office 3. My ISP automatically disconnects me after four > hours even if I'm not idle. Anyway, when I try to r

Re: fetchmail + procmail setup

1998-12-13 Thread Richard L. Alhama
I used to have a working sendmail/fetchmail/procmail setup until I reinstalled hamm on my machine(used to be 1.3) after I've messed up init. But when I choosed smail as my MTA, my used to be working ~/.procmailrc could not sort mail anymore. I forgot how I set things up before, maybe a little of

Re: calculating bandwidth requirements

1998-12-13 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 10:39:24PM +0800, ivan wrote: > I am looking at setting up a dial-in machine to have a permanent connection > to the net so that family and friends can have accounts with me rather than > with seperate ISP's and therefore share the costs. Heh, I've been telling people a

Cannot access Web Page from behind firewall

1998-12-13 Thread Paul Miller
The Web Page I am trying access is www.columbiahouse.com. I try to access it from either Netscape or Lynx but both get hung up on waiting for the host to reply. This is on my machine inside my firewall. My set up is a two machine network. One is my gateway with a masquarading firewall with the fol

Re: less shows fortune

1998-12-13 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
> There probably a mismatched quote somewhere, or something similar. > > Post /etc/profile and /etc/csh.cshrc here, the error should be obvious > to spot I don't think so: # /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for bash(1). PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games" PS1="\\$

Re: gnome problems

1998-12-13 Thread wax_man
On 13 Dec, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | > | I'm trying to get gnome running. However, I'm running into problems > | with libraries. I've ran dselect, and it states that I have everything > | installed and configured, so I'm kind of at a loss. > | > | Does anyone have any ideas on

Gnome-(panel?)

1998-12-13 Thread Ramin Motakef
Hi! I've installed the latest gnome-debs yesterday, and have one little problem: The panel doesn't save its state when exiting. It always starts with only the main menu and the clock applet and at the default place. I know gnome is alpha, but maybe someone got this to work? P.S.: I have "exe

fetchmail + procmail setup

1998-12-13 Thread Dave Swegen
Well, since there seems to be a fair a number of people who can't figure this out, I thought it might be helpful if I mailed my own setup. First of all read the mail filtering FAQ (search yahoo for it). This describes more in detail the system that I use. Anyway, this is how I do it. In /etc/ppp/i

calculating bandwidth requirements

1998-12-13 Thread ivan
Hello All, I am looking at setting up a dial-in machine to have a permanent connection to the net so that family and friends can have accounts with me rather than with seperate ISP's and therefore share the costs. It is intended that all normal services (e-mail, ftp, web browsing, newsgroups etc)

exim: my contrib :)

1998-12-13 Thread Marco Frattola
hi debianers, after some struggling with exim (mostly due to myself, not to this nice program) i've found a setup that could be interesting for other people beside me. so i'd like to contribute it, with the hope it can help someone and maybe help myself too in bettering my config. BACKGROUND i've

Re: shell magic/info

1998-12-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Sibuyas Bombay" wrote: >Hello everyone ! > I've been dirtying my hands on how interactive shell programs like smailco >nfig, >bindconfig (those who ask the user for a choice and execute something for th >at >choice). > They always start with that usual executable magic #!/b

Re: 4 button Logitech MouseMan and XFree86

1998-12-13 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 10:43:45PM -0500, Paul Miller wrote: > I have a 4 button Logitech MouseMan (has a thumb button) and my buttons > don't work correctly in X. The thumb button seems to ack as the middle > button and the middle button doesn't work at all. Here's what my > current XF86Config f

Re: Problem compiling the kernel

1998-12-13 Thread Allens
Peter Granroth wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 08:06:56PM +, Allens wrote: > > Hi, > > I am at the moment trying to build the kernel (2.0.34) I have configured it > > (make xconfig, then ran make mrproper as advised by a post in the mail > > archives > > on this problem, and then done make

ftping StarOffice in small doses

1998-12-13 Thread tracheotomy bob
Hi all, I want to download StarOffice but with it being 70Mb I don't fancy having an open line for seven hours plus. Does anyone know of an ftp program that can download in chunks at a time and doesn't mind frequent interruptions. I think in the past someone mentioned 'cftp' but I can't

shell magic/info

1998-12-13 Thread Sibuyas Bombay
Hello everyone ! I've been dirtying my hands on how interactive shell programs like smailconfig, bindconfig (those who ask the user for a choice and execute something for that choice). They always start with that usual executable magic #!/bin/sh . Does anyone know of any documentation w/s can

Re: incorrect username on 'From:' line of outgoing messages

1998-12-13 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 02:42:57AM -0900, Britton wrote: > change this behavior so my outgoin messages have '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > in the 'From:' field, or do I just need to use a 'Reply-to:' field. Any > help or advice greatly appreciated. Yes, have pine put in a domain for you. Look in the

Re: Maus/ was: Debian Hamm used

1998-12-13 Thread Bernd Kreimeier
Off topic, but educational. Thomas Adams writes: > Hmm, does anybody out there in Germany > know Art Spiegelman at all? :) A few might. A court in Sonneberg handed a public prosecutor, one Hoenninger from Meiningen, free license confiscate whatever the publishing company distributing "Maus"

Epson Stylus Color IIs

1998-12-13 Thread van den Hurk
Hi everybody out there! Is there any support under Linux for the Epson Stylus Color IIs? Thanx Jan alias hinkel_stein!

Re: Star Office 3

1998-12-13 Thread Peter Berlau
On Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 12:27:42AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Jeff Browning wrote: > > > > Hey all, > > > > I just got Star Office 3. My ISP automatically disconnects me after four just suck star office 5.0 from stardivision and this works with libc6, StarOffice is eventually really slow :(, but

Re: Star Office 3

1998-12-13 Thread Peter Berlau
On Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 07:41:31AM -0400, Jeff Browning wrote: > Hey all, > > I just got Star Office 3. My ISP automatically disconnects me after four > hours even if I'm not idle. Anyway, when I try to run setup program in > /usr/lib/StarOffice3 it says "Segmentation Error." Also, do you need t

Re: recommendation on presentation software

1998-12-13 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > i need to make a presentation, and i'd like to do it with my laptop "a la" > Powerpoint. (ie video output of laptop plugged on LCD retroprojector) [...] > I need very basic capacities, as i won't have much time to create the contents > of the

Re: (off topic) UPS recommendation

1998-12-13 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > I am in the market for a UPS to use with my PC that will provide power > just enough power to get a shutdown finished in case of total power > lost. I know that Best Power and Fenton UPS explicity support Linux with their software, and

Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-13 Thread Mark Weston
On 12 Dec 98, at 10:24, David Stern wrote: > > Yes, I was trying again last nigt, and waited for 20 minutes or so > > without result. And the Master/Slave jumpers are definitely configured > > correctly. > > I thought of something the other day.. umm.. I know it's generally > considered somewha

Toshiba Satellite crashes with fn key

1998-12-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
Has anyone on this list tried pressing the fn key on a Toshiba Satellite while in Linux? In my case it locks up the machine irretrievably :)) . I wish there were some way of disabling it. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.achc.demon.co.uk

incorrect username on 'From:' line of outgoing messages

1998-12-13 Thread Britton
The subject pretty much says it all. My 'smarthost' is aurora.uaf.edu, and my username on this system is fsblk, but my username from my home maching (which is 'gandalf') gets put in the "From:" line. I have tried responding with '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' when asked by smailconfig for my systems visabl

fetchmail & procmail

1998-12-13 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi all, My fetchmail is now working fine. Thne I want to use procmail as well to divert all my debian mails to a different folder... I changed the line in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/fetchmail from fetchmail -v to fetchmail -v --mda formail -s procmail I also have

Re: [fsck]: file system errors ...

1998-12-13 Thread Nuno Carvalho
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have had such a problem. My problem has been caused by glibc2 bug. > This bug is fixed glibc-2.0.7u, and glibc-2.0.7t have such bug. Hamm > is using glibc-2.0.7t, so Hamm causes such a problem. I had as "base" installed hamm but with apt-get i'v

X fonts problems. nothing available for helvetica

1998-12-13 Thread Alan Bailward
Hi there. Appologies for re-hashing this. Just upgraded my system for the first time in a couple of months with slink. Everything mostly went right, but I have had some problems with X. When starting it, my windowmanager (windowmaker) complains with a message like: Can't load font -*-helvetica-

Re: Unsure of how Debian is updated

1998-12-13 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, > I am converting from RedHat to Debian and in the main am pleased with > Debian. One thing I can't quite work out though is how Debian handles > updated packages. Normally, updated packages go into "unstable", which is a sort of "work-in-progress area". Every now and then, unstable gets

Re: two smarthosts in exim?

1998-12-13 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, > On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 06:33:16PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > > Get rid of one ISP > > George... What if he is like me (you're going to love this)? > > I work at an ISP but try not to use the connection since I want my personal > netlife seperate from my professional netlife. T

mailtools filter

1998-12-13 Thread Richard L. Alhama
does anyone here have a working mailtools filter for debian-user? I gave up on smail/procmail. TIA

xdm & screen shot

1998-12-13 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi all, Could anyone tell me how I can capture the screen shot of my xdm?? Thx. shao.

PalmPilot going OpenSource?: off topic?

1998-12-13 Thread John_Gay
I know this is slightly off-topic, but, I just found an article and had a look around Palms site and found this page: http://www.palmpilot.com/devzone/rom3/srcavail.html I followed some of the links and, basically, You can register on-line as a developer, then fill out the Source code license and

Re: moving the root partition (esp. /dev)

1998-12-13 Thread John Paul Lorenti
Ok, thanks to you guys I got it working. If you're interested, here's what happened (I think). The first time I tried to copy all of the root partition using -axR. This was working until it got to one of the bttv (brooktree tv card) dev files. I think that because the card was in use (but it cou

Re: WindowMaker 0.20.3 on hamm

1998-12-13 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-"Tun Yang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | thanks for the input... I checked and I had those packages installed | already... and I couldn't find any packages with the same name but without | the 'g' at the end...It still gives the same error... | ld: cannot open -lX11: No such file or directory If I re

Re: gnome problems

1998-12-13 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | I'm trying to get gnome running. However, I'm running into problems | with libraries. I've ran dselect, and it states that I have everything | installed and configured, so I'm kind of at a loss. | | Does anyone have any ideas on what I need to do? This is potato, right? Fo

Re: Piped unpipable output [Xserver troubles]

1998-12-13 Thread tko
Christian Lavoie writes: [troubles] Christian, looks like you lack a valid "modeline". Check your monitor spec's vs the available modelines. Most video cards are capable of displaying far more video formats than the monitor is capable of displaying (without messing up or worse - burning out). --

Dead middle button in Agiler 3 button mouse

1998-12-13 Thread Eyal Lebedinsky
Just got a basic Agiler serial mouse (AGM1904). It works fine but the middle button does not respond. I used the spec: Section "Pointer" Protocol"Microsoft" Device "/dev/mouse" BaudRate1200 Resolution 400 Buttons 3 If I add ChordMiddle or Emul

Re: Configuring scsi controller on ISA bus

1998-12-13 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi David Herbert; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > I tried your suggestion, it did not return an error but also did not > work I continued on and also tried your suggestion using a shell from > inside install program it return the error "couldn't find kernel > image:aha152x=.0x3"

Re: moving the root partition (esp. /dev)

1998-12-13 Thread ray
On Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 12:39:36AM -0500, John Paul Lorenti wrote: > I'm trying to move all the files in my root partition to a different > disk parition. I had no problems using cp -ar to do this with the /usr > tree, but /dev is giving me problems. I can't seem to copy the devices > in /dev. I ge

Re: xserver-svga 3.3.2.3 messes virtual terminals

1998-12-13 Thread Carey Evans
Jean Orloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) what more can I try (outside reboot) to clear the terminals? setfont -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Microsoft is the answer! The question is, "Why did my PC crash?"

Re: moving the root partition (esp. /dev)

1998-12-13 Thread John Paul Lorenti
-r was a typo. I meant -R for recursive. It still won't copy the devices in /dev. Pete Harlan wrote: > > I'm trying to move all the files in my root partition to a different > > disk parition. I had no problems using cp -ar to do this with the /usr > > tree, but /dev is giving me problems. I can

Re: Configuring scsi controller on ISA bus

1998-12-13 Thread Kent West
Damir's line: > > > > boot:aha152x=0x340,11,7,1 What you said the error message was: > > > inside install program it return the error "couldn't find kernel > > > image:aha152x=.0x3" I'm not familiar with the way this error message is generated, but I "assumed" (oops, maybe that's where I went wr

Re: Star Office 3

1998-12-13 Thread Ed Cogburn
Jeff Browning wrote: > > I alrady have libc5 installed. Any other suggestions? > > Jeff > > >Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 00:27:42 -0500 > >From: Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: Debian-Users > >Subject: Re: Star Office 3 > > > >Jeff Browning wrote: > >> > >> Hey all, > >> > >> I just got Star O

Re: system instablity

1998-12-13 Thread Ed Cogburn
Dan hursh wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm asking here because I'm hoping someone might have a nicer > diagnosis for what I'm seeing. I had been running a debian hamm > installation that I had upgraded with no trouble until I had a disk > failure. I verified it was the hard drive that was hosed.

Re: Joystick

1998-12-13 Thread Michael Beattie
On Fri, 11 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *- Michael Beattie wrote about "Joystick" > > [snip] > > Linux quake does not have native support for the joystick. The only > way to get the joystick to work in quake is to use the joy2key program > at http://www.freenet.tlh.fl.us/~amstpi/joy2key.

Installation Problem

1998-12-13 Thread Alex
I am trying to install debian linux on an IBM personal system 2 model 70, 386 and have a major problem! The installation program trys three times to detect my controller card and says unrecognized chip and says there are no hard disks on my system. The installation continues till it wants me to par

Re: moving the root partition (esp. /dev)

1998-12-13 Thread Pete Harlan
> I'm trying to move all the files in my root partition to a different > disk parition. I had no problems using cp -ar to do this with the /usr > tree, but /dev is giving me problems. I can't seem to copy the devices Don't give it the -r option; -a alone will suffice. In particuar, -a includes th

Re: Star Office 3

1998-12-13 Thread Jeff Browning
I alrady have libc5 installed. Any other suggestions? Jeff >Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 00:27:42 -0500 >From: Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Debian-Users >Subject: Re: Star Office 3 > >Jeff Browning wrote: >> >> Hey all, >> >> I just got Star Office 3. My ISP automatically disconnects me after

system instablity

1998-12-13 Thread Dan hursh
Hi all, I'm asking here because I'm hoping someone might have a nicer diagnosis for what I'm seeing. I had been running a debian hamm installation that I had upgraded with no trouble until I had a disk failure. I verified it was the hard drive that was hosed. Anyhow, I recent bought ham

moving the root partition (esp. /dev)

1998-12-13 Thread John Paul Lorenti
I'm trying to move all the files in my root partition to a different disk parition. I had no problems using cp -ar to do this with the /usr tree, but /dev is giving me problems. I can't seem to copy the devices in /dev. I get messages like "cp: /dev/sdh3: Operation not supported by device". MAKEDEV

Re: Star Office 3

1998-12-13 Thread Ed Cogburn
Jeff Browning wrote: > > Hey all, > > I just got Star Office 3. My ISP automatically disconnects me after four > hours even if I'm not idle. Anyway, when I try to run setup program in > /usr/lib/StarOffice3 it says "Segmentation Error." Also, do you need to > have a windows partition to run wine?

Re: WINE

1998-12-13 Thread Cheng Tang
I have wine in my system, but it still does not work well yet. My guess is that your need change the setting in file wine.ini or ~/.winerc . Probably you forget to create a windows directory in your c:\ drive or point it to the wrong direction. Hope this works. -cheng On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 10

Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-13 Thread John C. Ellingboe
The only lead I had to a location for slink 1440 floppy images gives an error now. Maybe someone else will come up with a URL. I'm afraid you will probably need someone with more in-depth knowledge than me to solve the problem. John Mark Weston wrote: > > On 10 Dec 98, at 11:17, John C. Elli

Star Office 3

1998-12-13 Thread Jeff Browning
Hey all, I just got Star Office 3. My ISP automatically disconnects me after four hours even if I'm not idle. Anyway, when I try to run setup program in /usr/lib/StarOffice3 it says "Segmentation Error." Also, do you need to have a windows partition to run wine? Thanks a lot. Jeff ___

gnome problems

1998-12-13 Thread wax_man
I'm trying to get gnome running. However, I'm running into problems with libraries. I've ran dselect, and it states that I have everything installed and configured, so I'm kind of at a loss. Does anyone have any ideas on what I need to do? Thanks, Chris The attached file is my .xsession-error

Colours of tk applications under slink

1998-12-13 Thread Mark Mickan
The colours of all tk based applications seems to have been inverted under slink. That is, the background is now black rather than off-white, which makes many things difficult to read. I presume it is a matter of using X resources, but which ones? Out of curiosity, why was this changed? Please

Re: ICMP attack

1998-12-13 Thread AJ
hehe, i was pissing anyone of it was ppl trying to take an IRC channel im an op in.. :-( thanx for the help, AJ "Ivan E. Moore II" wrote: > Well, > > as for blocking it, there are new features in upcoming kernel releases... > (2.2) and I think there are some in the current version..(don't re

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